Latin America - Brazil

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados

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Bringing together ‘decades of experience’ in project finance, corporate deals, administrative law and regulatory issues, Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is one of the first ports of call for the most ‘innovative and challenging’ transactions and projects in the transport, sanitation, oil and gas, power and social infrastructure sectors. Led by the highly regarded José Virgilio Lopes Enei, the team ‘provides high-quality services’ to a varied client roster of clients that recurrently seek advice on project finance and development, public-private partnerships (PPPs), M&A in regulated sectors and government concessions. Mauro Bardawil Penteado, who stands out for his strong transactional background, is often retained by financial institutions, private equity funds and companies in mandates involving concessions, privatisations and the structuring of PPPs. With extensive experience in the transport, mining and logistics segments, Adriano Schnur is a key contact for financing deals, while José Ribeiro do Prado Júnior is active in M&A involving regulated assets and industries, regulatory law and project finance. The ‘excellent’ Alberto Faro showcases in-depth knowledge of construction and financing matters. The latter is also an area of expertise for Raphael Zono, who has advised on numerous debentures issuances, and Bruno Racy, a name to note for multilateral and export credit agencies, investment funds and borrowers.

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  • ‘The firm provides high-quality services.’

  • ‘Availability and technical knowledge.’

  • ‘Decades of experience, quality of work, availability of professionals (including partners). Participation in innovative and challenging transactions, which contributes to the firm's baggage and expertise in several areas.’

  • ‘Alberto Faro - excellent lawyer, transmits tranquility and security to his clients, participative in discussions and easy to access in case of any doubt or last minute problem.'

Key clients

  • Citibank
  • Vest
  • PSP Investments (Public Sector Pension Investment)
  • Lightsource bp
  • Vinci Partners
  • Radar PPP
  • Caixa Econômica Federal
  • Allen & Overy
  • Oxe Energia
  • Enerfin
  • Inpasa
  • FONPLATA - Plata Basin Financial Development Fund
  • New Development Bank - NDB
  • Echoenergia Participações
  • Proparco
  • CDPQ - Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
  • Compass Gás e Energia
  • Cattalini
  • LD Celulose
  • CCI Energy

Work highlights

  • Advising the coordinating banks in AES Cajuína AB1 Holdings’ first issuance of simple debentures, not convertible into shares, unsecured, with additional fiduciary guarantee, in a single series, for public distribution with restricted efforts.
  • Assisted Corporación Andina de Fomento – CAF in its first transaction, acting as guarantor, in a project in Brazil.
  • Advised the issuer on a deal that consisted of Portonave – Terminais Portuários de Navegantes’s fifth issuance of simple debentures, non-convertible into shares, in two tranches.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jose Virgilio Lopes Enei